as russia reaches a milestone in preparations for its first ever winter olympics the celebrations are marred by scandal and president putin pledging to sack one of the key think is behind the construction and planning twenty fourteen. droning on america sees a media blitz aimed at improving perceptions of washington's unmanned. questions over the use of broad become louder. and. public anger over an opposition leader's killing comes close to boiling point prompting pledges of a government reshuffle placing. well

there isn't much more twenty four hours a day this is out. russia's black sea resort of sochi is marking a year until the start of one of the most exciting events for action seekers the winter olympics. giant countdown clocks have started taking in eight major cities across the country one in moscow weighs almost eight tons and six meters high sochi two of the fourteen winter olympics already the most expensive in history and will be there as a say this part that they have to make the games affordable the cheapest tickets will cost slightly less than twenty dollars. and farmer brings us more from the olympic construction site. piece by piece sorties a limping dream is coming together work continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast and the company in charge of construction

has a simple message despite building everything from scratch russia will be ready. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and olympic villages are in the final phase of construction are being referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the also we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but it cheating this gold has come at a staggering price hasting these games is costing around fifty billion dollars making them the most expensive in the intake history they've cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping

which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this bus hockey arena is prestigious i'm ready for use it will stay to the. eighteen world championships in april when a dozen international events that will test all in to their knees before the games begin the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the little big park is down by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. it is a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of our points the biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to leaks but if you make your way down the

mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking the so-called mountain in coastal clusters has not been easy even five hundred kilometers of am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed impress structure with the city mayor believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on the disc we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. she has undergone huge change in just

six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver against remember this time next year andrew farmer . soft cheek. the big day has been overshadowed by putin's decision to fire the deputy of the committee. failure to meet deadlines is behind the presidents and lottie's brings us the details of the scandal dowry. yes so basically what exactly was behind the president's decision well we're talking about deadlines being blown we're talking about extreme over expenditures of all the projects that are of course in the middle of the construction and we only have just barely a year left before the olympic games get kicked off but basically those who have put in on a visit to the olympic sites was extremely unhappy what what he has seen and has

started asking questions and he was unhappy with the answers. are they really cost overruns yes a serious increase in costs since they use their influence for the construction phones. is the shareholder of spirit so it's largely finance at the expense of. these cost overruns are paid for by spending one of the costs so. what's the overall. and. what's referred to. one point two billion this twenty eight billion yes well done good work let's move on. well you've heard it for yourself it went from one point two billion rubles to eve billion rubles that's of course something that wasn't considered acceptable of

by the russian president and the man who was in charge of all of this bill all of he was also the vice president of the olympic committee he was the head of the northern caucus in the resorts of the northern caucasus kompany basically i'm saying was because we know that president putin has already ordered that the man be let go of all polls that he's been in charge of as a result of these failures. ok you know. thank you all to reporting there thank you.

are you going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to a hundred a classified documents she says it justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years but president that story she refused recently however some senators him to they would block his nominee for cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate confirmation hearing on thursday so he's going to go reports his appointment might broaden their horizons america's drone fleets. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without

projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing were. allowing us to see and. from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or

terrorist activity the numbers should not come as the. price considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations from the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. live a few might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something. to united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the

world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war their intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice fister teacher consequences that inevitably come with the use of force. as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of

course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further the goal is pretty much clear to be able to control the world with a remote control in washington i'm going to. and then the u.k. a free your eyes only private messages sent between internet users could be decoded unmonitored the government says it's to keep the country safe that's coming up. officials from tunis is ruling is the party have reportedly rejected the prime minister's plan to dissolve the government and hold new elections the pm decision comes after another wave of public hearing police fired tear gas at thousands of angry protesters in the capital tunis on wednesday after they attacked the offices

of the governing party don't rest too inspired by the assassination of a key opposition leader. with some claiming the authorities were responsible for political analyst danny markey believes the prime minister's concessions won't be enough to calm the storm. this is a calculus for more violence and war and. of course to use it with the hope of the arab spring we know is an area where you have the arab street is so politicized that any small change of course you can create content and hatred within society and this is essentially a convenient museum now where you have mass protests against the government we have many calls for the government to resign you have outraged public outrage against its affiliation which has been deemed has been committed by. close links with the government this is big not that this is in government but this really shows that the arab spring is not necessarily going to force the change in a good it has been a force for aggression it has led to more backward policy and to show the muslim

brotherhood they really have no. what they are and what they have done is to actually replace the regime which i suppose it overthrown and they have continued the same the same regressive and negative policies which have been undertaken by the previous us. and today we want your views on that story to r.t. dot com we're asking you how you see this playing out let's have a look at the results so far. well there we have it a majority of those who've already voted think to news it will plunge into further unrest around a quarter believe that the country will see a repeat of the arab spring twenty two percent think that protesters will face a harsh response from islamist of course and the rest of the country have a feeling that the leadership is ready for political concessions. to another country in gulf with an arrest some of the heaviest fighting in months as erupted

in the syrian capital rebels are attempting to take control of a key pro church to the city center facing heavy government resistance at this point both sides saying they're willing to negotiate.

do we speak your language as i mean for my view or not of. your programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. will turn a different angle on this story. here to. try to alter the spanish find out more visit. t.v. dot com. british government is considering using the so-called black boxes to monitor private citizens internet use in the interests of safety the move has been criticized as a point this invasion of privacy when a car deputy director of the big brother watch organization so the new measures would do nothing to catch those who pose a real security threat the u.k.

government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain rather than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes that are going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty horowitz assumptions that we've been made that the m i five obviously going to need this information and will react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on funds the full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a much further in-depth consultation to actually get to the facts about what is needed and how it can be done. drinking away your flight fright and soon become

illegal in russia the government is considering a crackdown on alcohol consumption on passenger planes after a series of brawls one of them forced an emergency landing at stories. that will control the falklands within twenty years according to the country's foreign minister it claims it won't even need military action on light time to take a thirty years ago why not what's fueling certainty at r.t. dot com. more news today violence is once again. these are the images.

syria's capital damascus has witnessed some of its most intense clashes in months rebels attacked government forces try to seize control of key approaches the city center the fighting came despite an opera by the opposition of. the negotiators with. the government could also be willing to talk that's according to its ally iran whose foreign minister was. mixed on it however there are splits within the opposition makes to but it's unlikely even if they bring down i sat so syria tribune editorial should be. written just like. the nicer ones did. actually. right even when the you. listed. it's a black market. because they know they cannot control it so

normally because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups off the top leader division in the beginning and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you feed the people they are not full of the shows they are not the fighters for freedom they are just war princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing to support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess following the country. now for some more international news in brief for you the leader of have says he's in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas forming a coalition government. is now saying the groundwork parliamentary and presidential

elections amassed took control of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven after winning an election the year before was sparked a conflict with the fattah movement in the past and continue to control the west bank. iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has rejected the u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear program saying the two countries cannot negotiate when tehran has a gun pointed at it comes just a day after washington tightened economic sanctions on iran and restricting cash from oil production u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one to one discussions last saturday. the french defense minister says is the most fighters have fired rockets at his forces in the north east of mali it's not known if any casualties now more than four thousand french soldiers in the country troops the government in paris as it wants to withdraw from next month defense minister says the war has so far cost

france seventy million euros. and tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets across spain they continue their protests against education reforms last two days of scenes but this is expected to be the largest yet. from the country's education minister to resign over the changes to the education system claims cost. place. coming up in a few minutes it makes a decision of the kinds of reports neighbors. world

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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser i told you to get out of. to get out of starling and out of the stricken tomatoes on wall street are agreeing with me yeah apocalypse which is by the way a term that i now claim ownership. u.b.s. tells clients to get ready for the bond pocalypse u.b.s. is planning a mass mailing to many of its brokerage clients alerting them that they have been reclassified as aggressive investors following a recent change in its market outlook that some people inside the firm say reflects a growing bearishness in the bond market particularly over the long term so max

yeah why are they reclassifying clients as aggressive if you were a client or if you were the broker sending out this letter what is going on here right well when you open an account at a brokerage firm per the laws of going back to thirty three and thirty four the know your customer rules you have to fill out what the profile of the customer is whether they're conservative whether they're aggressive and typically if they are conservative then they would migrate over to the bond market which are perceived to be conservative investments however now that you've had round after round of quantitative easing and you create this enormous bond bubble here in the u.k. and in the united states and around the world the sovereign bond bubble u.b.s. knows that the bond apocalypse is upon us that bond prices like in one thousand nine hundred four will drop not just twenty five percent but fifty sixty seventy percent so they're preemptively going in and they're reclassified all their customers.